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Clean Apex Code: Software Design for Salesforce Developers
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Clean Apex Code: Software Design for Salesforce Developers

by Pablo Gonzalez
May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
411 pages
6h 36m
English
Apress
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P. GonzalezClean Apex Codehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1411-2_5

5. Comments Don’t Lie, Developers Do

Pablo Gonzalez1  
(1)
Dublin, Ireland
 

When you find dead code, do the right thing. Give it a decent burial. Delete it from the system.

—Robert C. Martin

How to properly use comments and when to avoid them is cause for endless debate in online communities. In this chapter, I start by sharing my opinion on two popular misconceptions about comments. Then, I go over different types of comments and explain their pros and cons.

5.1 Everybody Lies

If you’ve been programming for a while, you may have heard developers saying that code should be self-documenting and ...
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